Estrada Courts

Estrada Courts is a low-income housing project in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, California.

[2] Estrada Courts was constructed in 1942–1943, during the World War II housing shortage in Southern California, which resulted from the war-time boom in war-industry work, followed by the return of servicemen to the region and the Bracero program.

In 1954, Paul Robinson Hunter designed an extension of the site with Fred Barlow, Jr.[3] providing 414 total apartments today.

When the Estrada Courts were built it was unique to other housing projects because it “was not fully segregated or bound by racial restrictions”.

Post-war era the Estrada Courts began to evolve, in the 1970s a total of eighty murals were painted by Chicano muralists.